fruitcratelabels.com: Appraisal ServicesWe can honestly tell you what your labels
are worth!

Many people have labels and label collections
that have been passed down to them by their families. Sometimes, they have
"...five of my Grandad's labels from his farm." And sometimes
they have large collections given to them by someone who worked in the agriculture
industry. One man had a collection with hundreds of orange labels from southern
California, which had been assembled at the turn of the century by a boy
on a bike riding around to the different packing houses. Another man found
a box in the attic of a home he bought in Boston, containing about 100 labels
which had been meticulously soaked off of boxes in the 1930s. Labels show
up everywhere. A couple peolle had "grocery bags" of uncut sheets
of labels from the presses of Schmidt Litho in the 1910s!!! Their grandfathers
being pressmen there. Some farmers have extraordinary collections, that
in their elder years, want to find a good home for and make a modest profit
at the same time.

If you have labels and you are trying to find out the value of, or trying
to sell them, I can help. All Appraisal values for labels are based on my
twenty-eight years of extensive collecting, research and computer databasing,
the largest known collections of their kind. Much of this work was published
in 1994 in Pat Jacobsen's First International
Price Guide to Fruit Crate Labels,
which features prices for over 9,000 currently (and
formerly) available labels -- the most extensive
book of its kind available anywhere. My experience is based upon many thousands
of sales, trades, and two-decades of exhaustive research and travel around
the Pacific Coast, America and the world, dealing with nearly 3,000 collectors,
sources and institutions. The current Database contains more than 30,000
entries, and I am personally familiar with nearly 60,000 different labels.

So, if you have labels you wish to know more about, for
insurance purposes, for curiositie's sake, or for potential sale, I am happy
to help! My goal in the hobby is to help you get answers to your questions!

WHAT KIND'S OF LABELS WE APPRAISE :Every kind of Fruit & Vegetable crate labels from
around the world, especially California Orange box labels -- food can labels,
salmon canning labels, cranberry labels, cigar labels, wine labels, product
labels and many other kinds of labels, Vintage poster art, and more. I also
specialize in the history of California Lithographers, especially San Francisco's
many historic printers -- documents of nearly any type from these companies.
I don't appraise:Trade
cards, seed packets, or fruit "stickers," that is, the little
sticky tags that come on individual pieces of fruit.

ASK A REPUTABLE SOURCE, AND GET INFORMATION
YOU CAN TRUST!!
If you have labels to sell, the best advise I can give you, is to speak
to someone reputable -- like those few of us who have twenty years in the
label business and have books and price guides out to prove it. Lots of
people want your rare labels. Even if you don't end up selling them to me,
or selling them at all, I will be more than happy to help you learn what
they are worth. If I can't help you, I will know another reputable person
who can. You may see several books out about labels, but only two authors
in California are truly qualified to help. Everyone else relies on their
books, including the other authors. So, you may as well come straight to
the source. Thanks! -- Pat (my books, and you can "google" Gordon
McClelland 's books!)

A REQUEST ABOUT EMAILS!!!Please DO NOT send graphics to me
via email, unless you contact me first. I can usually tell you about
your labels, via email or the phone. But I live in an area where my computer
speed is locked at 28.8 with little hpe of DSL even coming here. Graphics
overload my email box, and they can take 20 minutes to load which is very
time consuming and interferes with my normal email answering for the day.
Please contact me first for info and possible instructions. One morning
recently, someone sent me four graphics, which took 40 minutes to load,
and it turned out they were common labels, I could not use my computer until
they were loaded. They ended up being common so we both did not benifit
from it.. Thanks for understanding. Please, just ask me first. - Pat

SEE ALSO THE INFORMATION ABOUT SELLING YOUR COLLECTION
AND THINGS TO BEWARE FO AT THIS LINK <SELLING
YOUR LABELS>